. . . no person shall discharge from any source whatsoeversuch quantities of air contaminants or other material which cause injury,
detriment,
nuisance,
or annoyance to any considerable number of persons or to the public,
or which endanger the comfort,
repose,
health,
or safety of any such persons or the public,
or which cause,
or have a natural tendency to cause,
injury or damage to business or property . . .

California State Health and Safety Code Section 41700

This web site aims for the complete elimination of leaf blowers from California, and Nation-wide if possible.

There are over three millionleaf blowers in California. The majority
are gasoline-powered leaf blowers. If growth trends continue, soon
there will be over six millionleaf blowers in California, at which time, air pollution, water pollution, blown dust,
and noise, will be twice as bad as today.

Details (illustrated with trend charts and other data) of the daily dose of pollution and noise visited upon
residents of California by over three million leaf blowers
are published in a ninety-two-page (including contents and index) manifesto that can be downloaded from this web site.

Manifesto updated 2007 December 13.

The first recipient of this manifesto was Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who pledged to
enact sweeping legislation to reduce or eliminate emissions and pollution from California.

Download Manifesto

You can download this ninety-two-page manifesto with details of the daily bombardment of
pollution and noise perpetrated by over three million leaf blowers. The manifesto is an Adobe PDF (Portable Document Format) file.
Use control-mouse or option-click (Macintosh) or right mouse (Windows) to download the PDF document to your file system instead of
displaying the document in your web browser window.

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If you need Adobe Acrobat Reader to read the downloaded PDF (Portable Document Format) file, you can obtain it from the
Adobe web site.

Contact the Officeof the Governor

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Contact the Governor's Office to add your voice to support elimination of polluting noise bazookas.

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Visit the page linked via the button on the left to get in touch with the office of Governor Jerry Brown, and voice your support for
eliminating three million polluting noise bazookas from California.

For a short tour of the main points of the manifesto, push the button to the left.
In the meantime, here are high-lights of the manifesto. Maybe low-lights more appropriately
describes the environmental destruction spewed into California cities and towns every day of the year by over
three million noise bazookas).

Every day, those gasoline-powered leaf blowers
spew over one-and-a-half million gallons of raw unburned two-stroke fuel
into your California air at two hundred miles per hour,
or over five-hundred-and-forty million gallons per year.

Since the beginning of the gasoline-powered leaf blower and noise-making era in California, those
gasoline-powered leaf blowers
have spewed eight billion gallons of raw unburned fuel
into your environment.

Every day,
gasoline-powered leaf blowers
spew over forty-eight thousand tons of Carbon Dioxide
into California air at two hundred miles per hour, or over eighteen million tons per year,
contributing to global warming.

Every dry day,
leaf blowers
boost over ninety thousand tons of dust
into your California air at two hundred miles per hour, creating potential health hazards, for
over eighteen million tons of dust per year.
That boosted dust potentially contributes to the huge increases in
asthma, allergies, and respiratory ailments
over the past thirty years.